they will hurt our economy. they'll add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment rolls. this is not an abstraction. people will lose their jobs. >> we in the house have passed on two occasions legislation to replace the across the board cuts in sequestration to frankly reasonable, better thought-out cuts. the president and the democrats in the senate have refused to do that. >> we have some automatic spending cuts coming up in nine days that will lay off hundreds of thousands of folks. this is the problem the congress can solve. we don't need the automatic, mindless spending cuts to hurt the economy, the military readiness. >> joining me now, nbc news senior political editor mark murray. we know all of that carries on in to the next week. what are you looking ahead to? >> tamron, as you just saw, president obama took to the bully pulpit on the sequester to argue there should be a type of solution for congress to be able to avert these looming spending cuts. and i would assume that you're going to s